[Vision2020] Email Viruses

Art Deco deco at moscow.com
Thu Jul 7 07:27:50 PDT 2005


Saundra,

I have noticed a different problem.  When I write from a nonbeliever's point 
of view and it is directed at the CCC and/or those with similar views, my 
spam reception goes up.

W.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Saundra Lund" <sslund at adelphia.net>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 11:35 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Email Viruses


> Visionaries:
>
> Has anyone else been plagued by a positive plethora of email viruses
> recently?
>
> Fortunately, I have excellent virus protection as well as some other
> safeguards, but starting at 5:10 PM on Friday, I have been absolutely
> inundated (I won't tell how many but its in the double digits) by email
> virus attempts to one -- and only one -- of my email addys, and it just
> happens to be the one I typically use to post to V2020.  Since I'm pretty
> particular about which email addys I use for what, I've a fairly good idea
> of where my email addy was harvested from.  Go figure!
>
> For comparison purposes, I can tell you that email addy had only had *one*
> virus attempt in the several proceeding months.  I find the timing
> incredibly odd, but who knows what lurks in the pathetic minds that come 
> up
> with these kinds of attacks.
>
> Short of ditching this email addy (which would be easy enough, I guess), 
> any
> suggestions?  Any chance my ISP can trace the source(s)?
>
> In the meantime, I'm backing up my hard drive every 30 minutes instead of
> once a day & keeping the previous images for 1 week . . . just in case 
> :-)
>
>
> TIA,
> Saundra Lund
> Moscow, ID
>
> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
> nothing.
> Edmund Burke
>
>
>
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